Eeehh....makes sense....but sounds like a conspiracy theory to me. It's mainly gotten so cheap because of the United States and the worldwide financial downturn. Less goods are being produced, less people are traveling. People here have driven billions of miles less in their cars this year than just last year. Supply and demand. OPEC has already agreed to cut production once recently, 1.5 million less barrels a day, to slow the price drop.